Katz v. Brandon’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
89 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 89 later decisions — most recently December 2010 · most notably United Oil Co. v. Urban Redevelopment Commission (1969), Protect Hamden/North Haven from Excessive Traffic & Pollution, Inc. v. Planning & Zoning Commission (1991)
89 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Berman v. Parker · Abdul v. United States · Schurgast v. Schumann · Casalo v. Claro · Lyman v. Adorno
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 89 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A public use defies absolute definition, for it changes with varying conditions of society, new appliances in the sciences, changing conceptions of the scope and functions of government, and other differing circumstances brought about by an increase in population and new modes of communication and transportation . . . (Citations omitted.) Katz v. Brandon , 156 Conn. 521 , 532 , 245 A.2d 579 (1968). "Courts as a rule, instead of attempting judicially to define a public as distinguished from a private purpose, have left each case to be determined on its own peculiar circumstances. Promotion of the public safety and general welfare constitutes a recognized public purpose. If the expenditure of public funds will promote the welfare of the community, it is for a public purpose . . . The modern trend of authority is to expand and liberally construe the meaning of `public purpose.' The test of public use is not how the use is furnished but rather the right of the public to receive and enjoy its benefit.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“A public use defies absolute definition, for it changes with varying conditions of society, new appliances in the sciences, changing conceptions of the scope and functions of government, and other differing circumstances brought about by an increase in population and new modes of communication and transportation . . . (Citations omitted.) Katz v. Brandon , 156 Conn. 521 , 532 , 245 A.2d 579 (1968).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.